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- mekk0
Don't know much about her but I think a dead person does at least deserve a 'RIP' in the title, as all other RIP-Threads.
- Why?qTime
- inform yourself first. without comparison, did Hitler or Stalin deserve a RIP?oey
- thatcher = hitler or stalin now?
huh.detritus - don't do that detritus, I wrote: "without comparison". so seriously, don't imply that i meant something that I didn't even say.oey
- even say. I was just picking his part of "i think a dead person does at least deserve a 'RIP'"oey
- that's how politicians argue or people that don't even listen when others speak. not niceoey
- Do i mean by this detritus=stupid?
no i don't. will you read it that way? it's up to you. hope not.oey - Dudes, come down. Someone died. So we say RIP. Because thats what you do. She didn't kill someone, right?mekk
- She killed many people mekk.Wolfboy
- all those men on the Belgrano, any young person who committed suicide due to Section 28...Wolfboy
- ...any old person who has died of cold because of the cost of heating while the companies are in profit since selling off the utilities.Wolfboy
- Thatcher does not deserve a RIP. She deserves to rot in hell, if there is such a thing.Continuity
- Yep, didn't even consider typing RIP. Thatcher's death is kinda like an anarchist meme. achieving immortality whilst boiling in milkkingsteven
- boiling in milk...kingsteven
- stoplying0
I watched the Iron Lady flick and enjoyed it. Didn't know much else about her before seeing that.
- lowimpakt0
the falklands, a colonialist hangover.
- I'm from Gibraltar and my father lived in the Falklands. I think the peoples of those two 'colonies' would disagree with you.detritus
- you.detritus
- wel, i'm not 'from' gibraltar - but it's been my family home for nearly 30 years.detritus
- they may disagree with me but that's life. i have no bones with themlowimpakt
- so what does 'a colonialist hangover' actually mean then? or is it just a a random stab? it means nothing.detritus
- it means that the islands is a battleground between 2-3 colonial powers.lowimpakt
- No it doesn't, it implies it's some anachronistic injustice that undermeans some New Order.detritus
- *underminesdetritus
- ...Gibraltar Españooool!Miesfan
- kingkong0
An Irish minister has criticised Gerry Adams for his comments about Lady Thatcher. My colleague Henry McDonald has sent me this.
Ireland's Justice Minister sharply criticised Gerry Adams today over his remarks had caused a great deal of hurt to the Irish people.
Alan Shatter said Adams should remember that the Provisional IRA caused a great deal of hurt during the Troubles.
Speaking in Dubin this morning, Shatter said: I think those who comment critically on Margaret Thatcher, in particular those in Sinn Féin who do so, shouldn't be allowed to forget that they were directly responsible, and the Provisional IRA, were responsible for a murderous bombing of a Conservative Party conference that resulted in the death of a number of people."
- i_monk0
Here's hoping more conservatives quickly follow her to the grave.
- Let's start with maybe Mulroney. He was a Thatcher/Reagan laptop.Continuity
- Err ... *lapdog.Continuity
- Mulrooney, Harris, Day...i_monk
- Ralph Klein ... oh, wait!Continuity
- vaxorcist0
The fact that Thatcher died peacefully, in old age, makes me really doubt the existence of karma...
- fadein110
@detritus - are you into Cameron and Osborne as much as Thatcher?
- Nope, I don't particularly like Thatcher either - I just dont demonise her.detritus
- I respect Thatcher, I guess.
More so than most, anyway.detritus - you obviously were not affected by her growing up.fadein11
- I'm from the north - i grew up there, under thatcher, seeing what went on there. We left.detritus
- see_thru0
I'm loving how people who weren't even alive in the 90's let alone the 80's are jumping on the anti Thatcher band wagon.
I'm no apologist, but it strikes me that there have been more than enough opportunities for people to direct change and give us a different history to the one that people are are passionately distancing themselves from.
- eoin0
What a lovely woman...